An irate Ohio man murdered his child, stepchild, and the father of the stepchild before turning his murder weapon on himself.
The Tiffin Police Department said the incident took place when Ryan Eagon’s wife was removing belongings from their home “following ongoing domestic issues. Eagon was believed to be working out of town, police said, and the father of the woman’s oldest child — 29-year-old Dustin Willey — was helping her move out.
“Evidence indicates that the mother and Dustin were inside the residence gathering remaining items while the children, ages 7 years and 7 months, were outside near a vehicle,” police said. “After hearing the 7-year-old cry out, they went to check on him and observed Ryan Eagon in the driveway.”
Eagon, 42, began chasing Willey and shooting at him as he pushed past the mother. Then he abruptly shot the children before firing again at Willey. When he had finished, he killed himself.
Police responded and found Willey and the two children inside with the mother, “who was physically uninjured but clearly in a state of shock, overwhelmed and visibly traumatized.”
Eagon was found outside the home.
The mother told police she carried her children inside the home before they arrived. Willey and the 7-year-old were taken to hospitals, where they both succumbed to their fatal injuries. Eagon and the baby were pronounced dead at the scene.
Police did not identify the two children or their mother, but social media posts named them. The 7-year-old was Wrenn and the infant was August, according to their grandmother. The children’s mother, Raven Broski, wrote on Facebook about her devastation after witnessing an enraged man killing her children in front of her.
my babies were 7… 7 years & 7 months… my babies were 7…. my babies are asleep and i want to go to sleep with them. i want to wake up from this nightmare to my happy smiling children. god make this stop. it can’t be real. god please. god make it stop. i carried them god… i carried them. my whole life is gone.
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[Featured image: Dustin Willey, Wrenn, and August/Facebook]
